Hybrid Trade Spend Analyst – Deductions & Insights

Glanbia; Downers Grove (IL); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Glanbia is seeking a Financial Analyst for Trade Spend to join the Downers Grove team. The role focuses on clearing customer deductions, setting up promotional codes in the system, and ensuring accurate month-end trade accruals.

You will audit deductions, validate pricing, and collaborate with Sales and Accounts Receivable to resolve issues. You will develop ad-hoc reports to compare Actuals vs Budget, monitor deduction aging, and help maintain coding accuracy by customer, brand, and SKU.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance preferred.
• Proficient Excel skills with strong analytical ability.
• Experience with SAP and Business Objects is a plus.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Detail oriented with accuracy and consistency.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and stay organized.

Responsibilities

• Assist on any Trade Spend Budgeting process.
• Maintains trade accrual database to facilitate reporting of actual trade spend by customer and SKU.
• Administer and enforce deduction management policies.
• Detail review of customer deductions for accuracy to ensure each deduction is valid and supported.
• Process Journal Entries for any deduction clearance and prepare trade accruals.
• Detail tracking of communication to customers and status of each deduction.
• Reporting of Deduction aging, and understand customers’ deductions trends.
• Ensure deductions are properly coded to the correct customers, brands, SKU.
• Proactively identify trends and assist in implementing processes to continuously improve accuracy and efficiency of deductions and to prevent invalid deductions.
• Work with customers and AR team to ensure backup is received timely and follow-up when additional information is needed.
• Help in the process for approving Promotional Activities.
• Upload Promotional codes within SAP.
• Provide ad-hoc deduction and trade spend reporting and analysis.

Skills

Excel

SAP

Business Objects

Communication skills

Detail oriented

Organizational skills

Prioritization

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance

Tools

SAP

Business Objects

Job description

Glanbia is seeking a Financial Analyst for Trade Spend to join the Downers Grove team. The role focuses on clearing customer deductions, setting up promotional codes in the system, and ensuring accurate month-end trade accruals.

You will audit deductions, validate pricing, and collaborate with Sales and Accounts Receivable to resolve issues. You will develop ad-hoc reports to compare Actuals vs Budget, monitor deduction aging, and help maintain coding accuracy by customer, brand, and SKU.